#  Thomas Steinke 

PhD student, Theory of Computation group, Harvard

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 PhD student Thomas Steinke is involved in the Privacy Tool's differential privacy work and de-identification meetings, working on differential privacy and pseudorandomness. He has previously served as a Teaching Fellow for CS225: Pseudorandomness taught by Salil Vadhan. Thomas also served as a mentor to REU students in summer 2014 and summer 2015.

 **5****Recent Publications**

- C. Dwork, A. Smith, T. Steinke, J. Ullman, and S. Vadhan, “[Robust Traceability from Trace Amounts](/publications/robust-traceability-trace-amounts),” in IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2015), Berkeley, California, 2015. [robust.pdf](/file_url/591)

- T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “[Interactive Fingerprinting Codes and the Hardness of Preventing False Discovery](/publications/interactive-fingerprinting-codes-and-hardness-preventing-false-discovery-0),” JMLR: Workshop and Conference Proceedings, vol. 40, no. 201, pp. 1-41, 2015. [PDF](http://jmlr.org/proceedings/papers/v40/Steinke15.pdf)

- T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “[Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy](/publications/between-pure-and-approximate-differential-privacy),” Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP 2015), London, UK. 2015. [TPDP Conference Version](http://tpdp.computing.dundee.ac.uk/abstracts/TPDP_2015_3.pdf) [Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy.pdf](/file_url/523)

- T. Steinke and J. Ullman, “[Interactive Fingerprinting Codes and the Hardness of Preventing False Discovery](/publications/interactive-fingerprinting-codes-and-hardness-preventing-false-discovery),” 2014. [arXiv.org](http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1228)[Abstract](/publications/interactive-fingerprinting-codes-and-hardness-preventing-false-discovery) [1410.1228v1.pdf](/file_url/334)

 **Poster Presentation**

 NSF Site Visit, December 2014

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